Letters to the editor: Tuesday, July 14

Sen. Jeff Sessions opened the process of Advice and Consent by stressing "the Law": the machinations of men as representatives within a democracy as inviolate.

Some men with scruples and some men without scruples make democratic laws of legislative machination.

Sessions emphasized the inviolate nature of those legislative machinations: Some not contrary to the Constitution and some contrary to the Constitution.

He contradicted everything previously stated by reading the Oath of the Jurist.

The word "Justice" not "Law" is given by oath. The phrase "the Constitution and laws of the United States" followed within the oath.

The Constitution first, then the laws of the U.S. not contrary to the Constitution.

The Constitution begins with "We the People ... establish "Justice": not "Law."

"Justice" is "the Rule of Law" necessary for a laissez-faire system of government: Free markets without preference to a few.

Law is "the law of men's machinations against other men in commerce."

Such machinations are contrary to the Duty of the Sovereign accepted by the People as Sovereigns each in 1788: They are contrary to The Constitution.

Constitution is first in American Constitutionalism: Justice, fidelity to the Constitution as it reads, fidelity to free market commerce.

A commercial republic of no preference in any regulations to one group above another.

Ellery B. May III,Huntsville, 35803

Concert offensive

This is to comment on the so-called concert put on as part of a block party July 11.

I, for one, was very offended by such disregard for people not wishing to attend but being subjected to the offensive words used in amplification to the degree that it was audible several blocks away. Doubly offensive, the fact that it was coming from the parking lot where I attend church, a church which has served Christ in the heart of the city for 200 years, certainly desecrated this theme.

If they wish to make downtown more attractive, they should put this type concert under cover, where those of us who enjoy the ambiance of our town can enjoy the same. This is not the way to make our town attractive to those who have been here all our lives and already find it attractive but also wish to see progress.

If this was a concert only for the sophisticated people over 19, where are the rest of us not-so-sophisticated supposed to go when it's blasted into our ears?

Lee D. Harless Jr.,Huntsville, 35801

Put it in perspective

Perhaps in Michael David Smith's next letter to The Huntsville Times, he would make the case for not honoring the founding fathers and American soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War. Weren't they also traitors to their country (Great Britain) who fought to establish a new nation that permitted slavery? Perhaps the Daughters of the American Revolution bear watching. And shouldn't we be suspicious of anyone who would quote George Washington, traitor to his country that he was?